Cricket occupied a special place in Rishi Kapoor's heart!
Updated On: 01 May, 2020 07:01 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Sandhu was present on the sets of the 2011 film, Patiala House for which he had trained star actor Akshay Kumar, who played the role of a cricketer called Parghat Singh Kahlon
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Rishi Kapoor (left) with former India cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi at the CCI, Churchgate during a friendly match. Pic/ mid-day archive
Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor, 67, who succumbed to cancer on Thursday, was an avid cricket fan with a feel for the history of the game.
Balvinder Singh Sandhu, the man who claimed the first West Indies wicket (Gordon Greenidge) in the fabled 1983 World Cup final at Lord's, remembered how Kapoor was happy to hear about past matches while a lot of his conversations with the departed film stalwart centered around India's 1983 triumph.
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